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Show FICTITIOUS WATER. FAMINE. Friday night was lawn-sprlnkling night, in all parts of the city, though nominally at different hours in the two sprinkling districts. But in the western west-ern part of the city there was no water at all for any purpose, and this .deprivation .depri-vation lasted from before five o'clock In the afternoon till a late hour, after most people had gone to bed. The same report came from other parts of the city. The statement as to the western portion por-tion of the city from First West street on, Is positive; the other is by report. Now, assuming It to be true as stated stat-ed generally, there can be but one conclusion: con-clusion: that the water authorities, taking ta-king advantage, of the theory that as It Is sprinkling night, they can stand off any protester by the statement that the water is all taken for sprinkling, shut the water off altogether, and people peo-ple not only fall to get water to sprinkle sprin-kle their lawns, but fall to get It for any puroosc whatever. The only plausible explanation of this freaky act of the authorities is that they hope to convince the people by arbitrary and needless hardships that the true and only Morris plan for relief re-lief Is necessary absolutely, and that until there Is a general acquiescence In it the gaff will be applied periodically as a convincer. It is a shallow piece of mean, arbitrary arbi-trary oppression, which Is sure to have exactly tho contrary effect to that which Is intended. |